You put your head in your canon and what do you get?

[doitrockapella]

✭ A HEADCANON/QUESTIONS MEME ✭
Which is better than "another day older and deeper in debt".

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Comments

[ardent]

He's gotten a bit better about it over the...almost-year that he's been here, actually! ...and by "a bit better" I mean "he's not quite as likely to take your damn head off if you get him started on this topic and he'll probably scream for a bit less than a couple of hours". It's probably still not one you want to get him started on, so take that with about an ocean's worth of salt, but it's troubling him a little less now that he's gotten used to How Things Work in Johto.

That said, however, that doesn't mean he wouldn't change anything if given the opportunity, and there's still a difference between "not being troubled by it" and "totally okay with it." What he's not okay with isn't so much the lack of mandatory education (THOUGH THAT IS MOST CERTAINLY A THING...) as it is the lack of education beyond a certain point, period; he's honestly confused as to exactly how the Professors got their doctorates, given that school doesn't even seem to be a thing once one is past the age of ten. I think if he wants to institute anything in Johto, it would be to at least have the option to continue one's education should they want to, even if the age at which it's acceptable to stop attending school is far lower, which it would most likely be given how things tend to be in PokeWorld over here.

[superordinary]

Ooh. They probably got their doctorates from a box of breakfast cereal or something. :|a

What does Ishimaru do during a perfectly normal day in Johto? Any habits or routines? Also, what's he like as a trainer/how does he raise his Pokémon?

...SORRY IF I'M ASKING TOO MANY QUESTIONS, UM.

[ardent]

...IT WOULDN'T SURPRISE HIM, REALLY, THEY'RE HAVING A BUNCH OF SCHOOLCHILDREN DO THEIR RESEARCH FOR THEM...

But yes, when it comes to daily life he's usually got some sort of schedule or routine going; he prefers it that way, and if his schedule gets disrupted too far it's usually enough to throw him off for the rest of the day and that tends to put him in a really hideous mood. He gets up early and usually does the usual preparations for the day, showering and getting dressed and breakfast and all that, then it's work; he's working two separate jobs part-time, and he alternates days at both - one day he's doing data entry at the Pokemon Center and generally dealing with files and information (not the patients, thank god), the next he's working as a waiter at some restaurant that he is almost 100% certain the Dangans do not frequent. He's working shorter hours but still getting decent income that way. :|a

After that he usually takes a couple of hours to himself; sometimes it's pool, though for the last few days about an hour or so after work has gone to the DDR machine while he tries to learn how to defeat it (he is working on memorizing all of it. all of it), and some days he has scheduled to work with Naegi on the whole kendo thing. It's probably a good sign that he's actually started figuring for just...doing stuff for the sake of leisure; he still prefers it to have some sort of purpose, but he's starting to actually just do stuff because he wants to.

Dinner happens eventually, and if he's not interrupted he'll train his Pokemon a bit after that and then study until he falls asleep.

So he's usually by himself, unless he's made plans with someone to do otherwise (which are deviations from schedule but at least he knows it's coming if he's made plans in advance and he doesn't mind if it's not just sprung on him), but at least it's...somewhat more varied than the "school/studying/NOTHING ELSE" thing he was doing before.